Every figure in the tracker can be traced to the document that controls it. This page states what is tracked, how the figures are built, and how they are verified.
The tracker covers incentive programs that touch a Class 8 battery-electric tractor or the depot that charges it, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia: vehicle purchase money (vouchers, grants, tax credits), charging and infrastructure money, utility programs, ongoing credit and rate revenue, recurring fees, and regulatory posture.
Itasca Research reads the governing document — the request for applications, the terms and conditions, the tariff — before a figure enters the tracker. Secondary descriptions, press releases, and aggregator listings are never the source of a published number. Cited governing documents are archived at research time, because program pages move and disappear.
A second independent pass re-verifies every load-bearing claim against the primary source and stamps it confirmed or contradicted. Disagreements are published, not resolved silently: a contradicted figure is either corrected from the primary source or shown with its contradiction. Each state page shows the verification state of its figures and the date they were last checked.
Capture per truck is measured the same way in every state, for a Class 8 battery-electric tractor on a ~$290,000 vehicle basis, as three scenarios. The figures are per truck: vehicle purchase money at its per-vehicle amount, plus depot charging money spread over the trucks a charger serves — each state’s full page states the depot assumption. Site-level awards that cannot be allocated to a truck are excluded. The free list and state pages show the base figure as available now and the stretch figure as potential; the conservative figure and the programs behind all three sit under How to Access the Money:
| Conservative | money with essentially no execution risk — entitlements and point-of-sale programs a qualifying buyer receives by default |
| Base | confirmed-open, first-come or standing programs with funds in hand — labeled available now everywhere on the site; a positive figure under $5,000 prints as “under $5,000” |
| Stretch | adds scored-competitive and conditional paths at full value, and returning programs whose next round is authorized — labeled potential everywhere on the site; a program that is not yet funded or built stays out until it is |
Competitive award odds are never multiplied into the numbers — probability haircuts are unfalsifiable. The grade absorbs that risk instead.
Beside the figures, each state carries up to three program signals. A program counts toward a signal at $25,000 or more per truck — roughly a tenth of the vehicle basis; smaller money moves the figures, not the program signals.
| OPEN | at least one Class 8 vehicle-purchase program — a voucher, grant, or tax credit with a per-truck value — is taking applications now |
| UPCOMING | a vehicle-purchase program worth $25,000 or more per truck is returning or announced and not yet open. The state page names the amount and says which of three things is true: the next round is authorized and not yet announced; the program runs in rounds and the next is not announced; or the program is announced and not yet taking applications. Dates are never inferred — a date appears only when the administrator has published it, in the full page |
| COMPETITIVE | $25,000 or more per truck in scored, competitive awards is open now — money in potential, not in available now |
Each state (and the District of Columbia) carries a grade from A to D, weighing money, openness, and durability. The grade holds the judgment the dollar figures deliberately exclude — award odds, funding fragility, program staying power — which is why a state can show a large available-now figure and still carry a lower grade than a state with smaller, sturdier money. The grade rates the state, not any one program.
| Grade A | deep, open, durable money — multiple funded paths or entitlement-style programs with staying power |
| Grade B | substantial money is available, but it depends on one-time funding pools such as settlement trusts, narrow application windows, or eligibility gaps — the dollars can lapse between funding rounds |
| Grade C | thin or conditional — small, competitive, or infrastructure-weighted dollars |
| Grade D | effectively nothing open — nothing taking applications, or ceilings beneath every Grade C |
Shown on the site as Ongoing Incentives. Recurring revenue counts credit programs and on-bill payments only, on a standardized duty cycle of 60,000 miles per year at 2.0 kilowatt-hours per mile. Avoided costs — rate discounts, waived demand charges — are excluded from revenue and noted as upside. Recurring fees (registration surcharges, per-kilowatt-hour road taxes) are tracked separately and never netted into revenue. The two figures deliberately err in opposite directions: fees book the worst plausible case, revenue books confirmed money only.
The tracker refreshes monthly. A state is re-checked when its data is more than 60 days old or when a funding window falls within the next 45 days, and every change lands in Program Radar and the monthly changes report: programs opened or closed, amounts moved, windows announced. Data on this site is current as of 2026-08-14.
The state list — grade, available now and potential per truck, program count, and the program signals for every state and DC — is free and citable; every state’s name and grade and the Grade A rows’ figures are open to everyone, and a free sign-in shows every figure. Pro carries the full page for every state:
| Complete Program Information | every program, what it pays, open or not, its window |
| Applicant Eligibility | who can apply, how many trucks, what stacks |
| How to Access the Money | the programs behind both of each state’s figures |
| Ongoing Incentives | utility and credit money per truck per year, and fees |
| Program Radar | what changed, what is coming, and a heads-up before it closes |
| Source Documents | the document behind every figure |
Itasca Research is a publication of Itasca Group LLC. Its research originated in, and continues to inform, hands-on fleet-electrification advisory work.
The tracker states program facts with sources; it is not purchasing, tax, or legal advice. Program terms change and administrators have final say — verify any figure with the program office before committing capital.